The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-26


Brooklyn tabernacle this morning on the
subject: forgiveness before Shutdown. -
After explaining some passages concern
ing Hezekiah DIR. Talmage gave out the
following hymn, which was sung BY tho
congregation:
This glorious hope revives
oar courage by the way,
White each IN expectation lives
And longs 70 see the day.
Professor Henry Eyre Browne rendered
On the organ an aria with variations by
Cramer. The text Of the sermon was
from Ephesians iv, 90: LET not the sun
go down upon your wrath Dr. Tai
mage said;
What pillow embroidered Of all colors
hath the dying day! The cradle Of clouds
from which the sun rises is beautiful
enough, but it Is surpassed by the many
colored mausoleun in which at evening
it is buried. Sunset among the mount
aims! 1t almost takes ones breath away
TO recall the scene The long shadows
stretching over the plain make the glory
Of the departing light on the tiptop crags
and struck aslant through the foliage the
more transpicuous. Saffron and gold.
purple and crimson commingled. All
the castles of cloud in confagration.
Burning Moscows on the sky. Hanging
gardens Of roses at their deepest blush
Banners of vapor. red as if from carnage,
in the battle of the elements. The hunter
among the Adirondacks and the Swiss
villager among the Alps know what is a
sunset among the mountains. After a
storm at sea the rolling grandeur into
which the sun goes down to battle at
nightfall is something to make weird and
splendid dreams out Of for a lifetime.
Alexander Smith in his poem compares
the sunset to 1.-the barren beach of hell, ~
but this wonderful spectacle of nature
makes me think of the FURNISHED wall Of
heaven. Paul in prison writing my text
remembers some of the gorgeous sunsets
among the mountains of Asia Minor. and
how he had often seen the towers of Da-
mascus blaze in the close of the Oriental
lays, and he flashes out that memory in
the text when he SAYS: Let not the sun
90 down upon your wrath. -
Sublime and all suggestive duty for
people then and people now. Forgive
ness before shutdown. He who never
feels the throb of indignation is imbecile.
Tie who can walk among the injustices
Of the world, inflicted among himself and
others, without flush of cheek, or flash
Of eye, or agitation of nature is either in
sympathy with wrong or semi-idiotic.
When Ananias, the high priest, ordered
The constables of the court room to smite
Panl in the mouth, Paul fired up and said (:
''God shall smite thee, thou whited wall. -
In the sentence Immediately before my
text Paul commands the Ephesians ::
BE We angry and sin not. 1t all de-
ponds on what you are mad at and how
long the feeling lasts whether anger is
right or wrong. Life is full of exasper-
atoms. Saul after David, Succoth after
Gideon, Korah after Moses, the Pasquins
after Augustus, the Pharisees after
Christ, and every one has had his pur-
5uers, and we are swindled. or belied, or
miTepresented, OF prosecuted, or in some
way wronged. and the danger is that
healthful Indignation shall become bale
full spite, and that our feelings settle
down into prolonged outpouring of
temper displeasing TO God and ruinous to
ourselves, and hence the important in
junction of the text 'Let not the SIM
90 down upon your wrath. "
Why that limitation to ones anger
Why that period of flaming vapor set to
eunctuate "A flaming disposition What
mas the sunset got to do with ones re-
sentful emotions Was it a haphazard
sentiment written by Paul without special
significance No. no | think of five
reasons why we should not let the sun
BET before our temper sets
First Because twelve hours is long
enough to be cross about any wrong in
1icted upon us. Nothing is so exhaust
ing TO physical health or mental faculty
As protracted indulgence of i'll humor.
Ii racks the nervous system. 1t hurts
the digestion. Ii heats the blood in brain
and heart until the whole body is first
overheated and then depressed. Beside
that, it sours the disposition, turns one
aside from his legitimate work, expends
energies that ought TO be better employed.
and does US more harm than it does our
antagonist. Paul gives us a good, wide
allowance of time for legitimate denunci-
alton, from O'Clock to o'clock, but
says: stop there!" Watch the de-
scending orb of day, and when it reaches
the horizon take reef in your DISPOSE
ton. Unloose your collar and cool off.
Change the subject to something delight
fully pleasant. Unroll your tight fist
and shake hands with some one. Bank
up the fires at the curfew bell Drive the
mel The hours of this morning will pass
by, and the afternoon will arrive, and
the sun will begin to set, and 1 beg you
on its blazing hearth throw all your feuds,
invectives and satires.
Other things being equal, the man who
preserves good temper will come out
ahead. An old essayist says that the
celebrated John Henderson of Bristol,
EnO1op1 ot Ifnit, .b.,,-o
political excitement ran high and the de-
bate got angry, and while Henderson was
speaking, his opponent, unable to answer
his argument, dashed a glass of wine in
his face, when the speaker deliberately
wiped the liquid from his face and said:
This, sir, is a DEPRESSION; now if you
please, for the main argument While
worldly philosophy could help but very
few to such equipoise of spirit, the grace
of God could help any man to such n tri-
umph. impossible, : you say. Il would
have either left the table in anger or have
knocked the man down. But / have
come TO believe that nothing is impossi-
BILE il God help, since what saw at Beth
Shan faith cure in London. England, two
summers ago. While the religious serv-
ice was going ON Rev. DIR. Boar,lman,
glorious man. since gone to his heavenly
rest, was telling the scores of sick
people present that Christ was there
MS of old 10 heal all diseases, and that, il
they would only believe. their sickness
would depart. | saw woman near me.
with hand and arm twisted of rheuma-
tisn. and her wrist was fiery with in
flammation and it looked like those cases
Of chronic rheumatism which we have
all seen and sympathized with, cases be-
yond all human healing. At the preach
ers reiteration of the words. "Will you
believe, DO you believe? Do you be-
heve now" l heard this poor sick
woman say, with an emphasis which
sounded through the building: II do be-
lieve." And then she laid her twisted
arm and hand out as straight as your
arm and hand, or mine. If had seen
one rise from the dead. l would not have
been much more thrilled. Since then |
believe that God will do anything m an
swer to our prayer and in answer to our
faith, and he can heal our bodies, and If
our soul is all twisted and misshapen of
revenge and hate and infiamed with sin.
full prochvity, he can straighten that also
and make il well and clean Ave, you
Will not postpone till shutdown forgive
ness OF enemies, if you can realize that
their behavior towards you may be- put
into the catalogue of the '.all things
that 'work together for good to those
that love God" l have had multitudes
of friends. but have found in my own
experience that God so arranged il that
the greatest opportunities of usefulness
that have been opened before me were
opened by enemies. And when, years
ago. they conspired against me. that
opened all Christcndom to me az field
in which TO preach the Gospel. So you